This article explores the world of biohacking, focusing on Nick Thomas's journey to improve his health and wellbeing through lifestyle changes, supplements, and a focus on stress management.
Whether we like it or not, ageing is inevitable. But that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a source of both fascination and fear.How far each of us would go to feel as good as we possibly can, and be the healthiest versions of ourselves, likely depends on a range of factors, from our experiences and family history to our personality, environment and socioeconomic status.
The pursuit involves lifestyle changes that may seem extreme to some and aspirational to others, but for those who follow that path, it can feel transcendent. For Nick Thomas there was a time things like fasting, cutting out bread, alcohol and caffeine, seemed impossible – undesirable even.“If I can change, then anyone can,” says Thomas, who runs a marketing consultancy. “I’d love everyone to feel better like I do and have the energy I have because it didn’t use to be this way.” Three years ago, his hair started falling out. Rapidly. He had no family history of male-pattern baldness, so when a dermatologist suggested it was a natural part of ageing and the only answer was medication, Thomas thought “bullshit”.The Melbourne-based Brit went to see a functional medicine doctor, who suggested his body was under too much stress and that. Once he addressed his stress, inessential functions like hair growth would be restored, the doctor told him, advising that he start taking supplements and replace his six weekly sessions of F45 with yoga, breath work and meditation.Biohacking is the concept that we can enhance our biology to improve our healthspan, wellbeing, and performance. His partner was already on the “biohacking train”, so Thomas went deep on it too. He had known he should change, if he wanted to feel less tired, depleted and aged than he did, but now he had the motivation that he must.Following a raft of tests, he began a bespoke supplementation regimen including NMN – “the longevity molecule”, l-carnitine, resveratrol, probiotics and “perfect” amino acids. Next was an overhaul of his die
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